Caution is the lower story of prudence.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

Biography is the only true history.

It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.